2023 Kinki Mencia
VINGÅRD: Mencia blandat med mindre andelar Dona Blanca, Palomino och Alicante Bouschet med den gemensamma nämnaren att alla vinstockar är 90-100 år gamla.
JORDMÅN: Blå skiffer och röd lera
VINIFIKATION:Druvorna handskördades. 100% hela klasar användes under spontanjäsningen som skedde på stora öppna träfat.Vinet lagrades sedan 8 månader på Amforakrukor om 800 liter. En liten andel svavel tillsattes innan buteljering.
Wine Advocate: 94+ Poäng
The 2023 Kinki has to be the most perfumed, floral and elegant vintage for this bottling; it's a grownup wine, not a teenager anymore. It has very juicy fruit and is really elegant and balanced, more serious but drinkable. It was produced with the grapes from a vineyard that has up to 25% other grapes, not only Mencía but Doña Blanca, Palomino, Godello, Alicante Bouschet (more than usual, which provides freshness) and Estaladiña. It fermented with full clusters, all the varieties together, in and open 5,000-liter oak vat. It comes in at 12.7% alcohol with a pH of 3.4, aiming at contained ripeness, low extraction and high drinkability. The ripeness is more complete and more homogeneous this year in the zone of Cobrana, and the wines are more serious, with a core of bright red fruit, fresh and elegant. It's always bottled early, before the summer, and was bottled in May 2024. 4,378 bottles produced.
Luis Gutierrez
